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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by bob1029 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @07:14PM (#21220164)
Depends on the unicorn. Some can spin up the full stack, put it under source control, wrap a CI/CD pipeline around it, and have it deployed to a TLS-encrypted public website in under an hour.

I think you can actually find the above level of developer - what many would classify a 'unicorn' - in approximately 1-2% of the workforce.

That doesn't mean they understand your business or products, know how to work well with other individuals, etc. There are a lot of other factors beyond just the productivity angle.

Now, the above developer also with the ability to fundamentally understand the business, as well as interact with all of the key people while performing said productivity stunts on a consistent basis... I think you are getting into the .1-.01% range.

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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by rajacombinator on Thursday October 10, 2019 @08:13PM (#21220457)
Wut. If you think someone can build the OP product in less than an hour, this is a new level of HN delusion ...
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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by mariomariomario on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:08PM (#21220692)
I imagine that "full stack" in this context refers to the equivalent of a Hello World project wrapped around a CI/CD pipeline.
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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by bob1029 on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:55PM (#21221140)
Correct. Not an actual complete project, but the boilerplate required to begin implementing & delivering features.
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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by rajacombinator on Thursday October 10, 2019 @11:34PM (#21221323)
Ah, yes, good and experienced engineers can do that.
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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by madelyn on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:37PM (#21220817)
If it's just "hello world" in this day and age of good frameworks, great open source tooling like Terraform and SaaS offerings that's not too tall of an order.
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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by Open-Sourcery on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:39PM (#21220827)
It looks like they are leveraging Netlify for their website, Gumroad for payments, and Notion for wiki. This helps to make as much of what is not actually the product (marketing, documentation, financials) as easy and fast as possible. Most of that hour would be actually making the product (the web extension).

Given a talent for design, and some marketing, and some experience making extensions. This should be possible within a reasonable time frame.

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Re:Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the in... by mantap on Thursday October 10, 2019 @10:35PM (#21221049)
Through practice and experience you can reduce the amount of time it takes to make routine actions and decisions. But the bottleneck is making good decisions about matters that are not routine, and every new project has plenty of those.
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